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Chicken Filets Start Flying: Cathy Opens His Business
When Cathy’s brother was also discharged from the army in 1945, the two decided to go into business together. Then, a local restaurant franchiser offered them a deal they could not refuse: to set each of them up as a manager with one of her restaurants. They accepted.
Lesson #1: "Loyalty of your people is a key to most any business success"
Cathy has built his reputation not only on the success of his business, but on the unique model with which he chose to expand. Instead of following the usual franchise route, he opted to form joint ventures with individual operators, thus guaranteeing “quality, supervision and the motivation of partnership.”
Lesson #2: “A restaurant company needs two things to succeed: capital and talent”
“In the early days we did not offer stock for sale because I could not predict how fast the company might grow or what dividends we might pay to anyone who might invest,” recalls Cathy. “Additionally, I’m afraid the directors, if we had a bad year, might tell me I’m old fashioned and fire me.”
Lesson #5: Flexibility Is Fundamental to Success
Cathy once said, “Looking back I can see that I had been preparing for twenty-one years to open the first Chick-fil-A restaurant.”
Celebrating Chicken: How Cathy’s Chick-fil-A Achieved Success
When Cathy was 38 years old, he was diagnosed with colon polyps. He thought his life as he knew it was over. It was not, but the experience did force Cathy to reexamine his principles. “I think I’d like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order,” says Cathy. “We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.” What were the important things that led to his success?
Business Owner Has Cleared the Clutter and the Stress to Find a More Productive Business
At one time, Cathy considered herself an organized person, but life has happened since then. Having twins and starting 2 different businesses has changed all that. Even still, she felt she had it pretty together and was progressing positively with her career But in her husband's eyes, Cathy's strategies did not work. He saw documents, products, toys and boxes stacked in corners of her office and a frequently time-challenged wife. “He had a mission - he has been trying to organize me for the past year. He would get frustrated and I would get frustrated,” Cathy said, referring to her husband. He had tried several approaches including rearranging things himself, but nothing would stick.

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Business Owner Has Cleared the Clutter and the Stress to Find a More Productive Business
At one time, Cathy considered herself an organized person, but life has happened since then. Having twins and starting 2 different businesses has changed all that. Even still, she felt she had it pretty together and was progressing positively with her career But in her husband's eyes, Cathy's strategies did not work. He saw documents, products, toys and boxes stacked in corners of her office and a frequently time-challenged wife. “He had a mission - he has been trying to organize me for the past year. He would get frustrated and I would get frustrated,” Cathy said, referring to her husband. He had tried several approaches including rearranging things himself, but nothing would stick.

Elite athletes find key to corporate success
For Cathy Freeman and Ian Thorpe and now Stephanie Rice and Michael Phelps Olympic success has literally brought fame and fortune … but their high profile success is not just about the colour of their medals. With the Olympics just over I can’t help but think of all the other athletes who won medals and wonder how many of them will end up with amazing sponsorship and media deals like Cathy, Ian, Stephanie and Michael. Not many I’ll bet. And with the Paralympics just begun, how many of these athletes will capitalise on their talent and success with lucrative sponsorship and media deals? Maybe even less.
The Chicken Connoisseur: The Early Years of Chick-fil-A’s S. Truett Cathy
At a time when the hamburger was dominating America’s fast food industry, a young Samuel Truett Cathy had a different idea: why not a chicken sandwich? With that, in 1946, Cathy launched a restaurant called Dwarf Grill, which would in time morph into the Chick-fil-A chain of over 1,500 quick service restaurants that specializes in chicken dinners, and has become something of a cultural icon in the southern U.S.

Chicken Filets Start Flying: Cathy Opens His Business
When Cathy’s brother was also discharged from the army in 1945, the two decided to go into business together. Then, a local restaurant franchiser offered them a deal they could not refuse: to set each of them up as a manager with one of her restaurants. They accepted.
Lesson #1: "Loyalty of your people is a key to most any business success"
Cathy has built his reputation not only on the success of his business, but on the unique model with which he chose to expand. Instead of following the usual franchise route, he opted to form joint ventures with individual operators, thus guaranteeing “quality, supervision and the motivation of partnership.”
Lesson #2: “A restaurant company needs two things to succeed: capital and talent”
“In the early days we did not offer stock for sale because I could not predict how fast the company might grow or what dividends we might pay to anyone who might invest,” recalls Cathy. “Additionally, I’m afraid the directors, if we had a bad year, might tell me I’m old fashioned and fire me.”
Lesson #3: “Too many CEOs are leaving sinking ships. They should be the last ones to leave the company.”
Despite Cathy’s success in expanding Chick-fil-A across the U.S., there were a number of stressful events that challenged that expansion.

Lesson #5: Flexibility Is Fundamental to Success
Cathy once said, “Looking back I can see that I had been preparing for twenty-one years to open the first Chick-fil-A restaurant.”
Celebrating Chicken: How Cathy’s Chick-fil-A Achieved Success
When Cathy was 38 years old, he was diagnosed with colon polyps. He thought his life as he knew it was over. It was not, but the experience did force Cathy to reexamine his principles. “I think I’d like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order,” says Cathy. “We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.” What were the important things that led to his success?
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